Реферат: Max Linder

left for the US late in 1916. Continuous ill health hampered the American phase of Linder's career from the start. In mid-1917, after

only three films, he was felled by double pneumonia and spent nearly

a year recovering in a Swiss sanitarium. When he returned to the US

in 1921, he formed his own production unit, releasing through United

Artists. But after making only three more American films, including

the celebrated parody (of Fairbanks’ The Three Musketeers) The Three Must-Get-Theres, he returned to Europe, where he married the

daughter of a Paris restaurateur in 1923. Linder made two more film

appearances: one in France, the other in Austria, but realized his career was finished. In 1925 he entered a suicide pact with his wife.

Their bodies were discovered side by side in a Paris hotel. He

remained forgotten for years, until the 60s, when many of his old

films began turning up, affording film historians an opportunity to

evaluate his career and his contributions to the evolution of screen

comedy.

Biography from

Quinlan’s Film Comedy Actors

With his foxy brown eyes

matched by a like moustache, cane, elegant cutaway coat, silk cravat,

kid gloves and gleaming top hat, Max Linder could have been every

inch the French boulevardier who “walked along the Bois de

Boulogne with an independent air”--had not, in films, everything

gone wrong for him. Max Linder was France’s first great film

comedian. But not for him any kind of dress that smacked of the

circus clown. Max was always debonair, even in the face of disaster.

His early films in France, of which he made scores, are cameos of

catastrophe, little gems which work a variety of gags on a single

situation, such as taking a bath, getting dressed, or (quite often,

as the wolfish Max pursued his prey) chasing a damsel. He was

enormously popular in the early 1900s. And, had not war intervened,

he would perhaps have been happily entertaining continental audiences